चूड़धार मंदिर की अविस्मर्णीय यात्रा

पिताश्री  की पद्दौन्नती के उपरांत वो लगभग 7 साल तक बाहर ही रहे। इसके पहले भी पिताजी धार्मिक स्थलों की यात्रा पर ले जाते रहे थे लेकिन पिछले 7 सालों में अत्यधिक कार्यभार होने के कारण कोई यात्रा करना असंभव सा हो गया था। दो महीने पहले पिताश्री वापस नाहन में स्थानांत्रित हुए। 

Churdhaar Mountain as seen on Google Earth

14 एवं 15 अप्रैल को अवकाश था इसलिए पिताजी ने चाचाजी के साथ मिलकर चूड़धार जाने का कार्यक्रम  बनाया। ताउजी को तो कुछ कार्य था लेकिन ताईजी और अंकित ने हमारे साथ चलने की सहमति दिखाई। चाचाजी चाचीजी, उनके बच्चे स्वाति और राहुल, मम्मी, पापा, सुमिति और आदर्श, बन गया काफिला। पिताजी ने एक जानकर की मदद से एक महिंद्रा जीप की व्यवस्था कर ली थी। गाडी निर्धारित समय प्रातः 6 बजे घर पहुँच गयी थी। लगभग 7 बजे हम नाहन से अपने गंतव्य की और रवाना हो गए। चूड़धार मंदिर पहुँचने के बहुत सारे रास्ते हैं, आपसे सहमति से हरिपुरधार मंदिर वाले रस्ते से जाना तय हुआ, चूँकि हम में से बहुत लोगो ने हरिपुरधार मंदिर भी नहीं देखा था। रेणुका से 10 की०मी० आगे धनोई नामक जगह पर एक ढाब्बे पर हमने नाश्ता किया। जब पिताजी राजाना कार्यरत थे तो अक्सर यहाँ पर जलपान किया करते थे। संगडाह/राजाना की और जाने वाली बसे इसी जगह पर जलपान ग्रहण किया करते हैं। आगे का सफ़र करते हुए हम 10:45 बजे हरिपुरधार पहुंचे, रास्ते में ब्रास के फूलों से लदे पेड़ बहुत ही मनमोहक दृश्य उत्पन कर रहे थे। हरिपुरधार मे देवी के दर्शन किए। मंदिर  में हमारी मुलाकात अपने स्कूल के एक अध्यापक ग्यार सिंह नेगी जी से हुई। उनसे भी चूड़धार के बारे में जानकारी प्राप्त हुई। इसके बाद हम सफ़र में आगे बढते हुए चाड़ना गाँव पहुंचे। गाड़ी के ड्राइवर भैया यही के रहने वाले थे। गाड़ी का एक टायर पंक्चर हो गया था वो ठीक किया। यहाँ चाय पीने के बाद 12:30 बजे हम लोग आगे रवाना  हुए।

Route Map

तक़रीबन 1 बजे हम नोहराधार पहुँच गए। अब यहाँ से 18 की मी की चढ़ाई पैदल यात्रा से पार करनी थी। पुरे जोश के साथ, कंधो पर सामान लाद कर, हमने ऊपर चढ़ना शुरू किया। अपनी सहूलियत के लिए यात्रा को मैंने 3 चरण में बाँट लिया है, हालांकि यात्रा के दौरान हमने दसों बार रूककर आराम किया होगा। प्रथम चरण में नोहराधार के पास में पड़ने वाले छोटे छोटे गावं थे। बहुत से ग्रामीण मिले जो अपने अपने काम में व्यस्त थे। बहुत से लोगो की आँखों में कुछ आश्चर्य भी नज़र आ रहा था, अपने जानवरों को चराते बच्चे, बांसुरी की धुनों से शांतिमय घाटी गूँज रही थी। इसके बाद शुरू हुआ ब्रास के फूलों का जंगल। लाल गुलाबी फूलों से लदे पेड़। बीच में पानी वाली, एक जगह रूककर हमने दोपहर का भोजन किया। पिताजी, माँजी चाचाजी और ताईजी ने तो व्रत रखा हुआ था इसलिए उनके लिए फलो का प्रबंध किया हुआ था। और ऊपर चड़ने पर हम एक मैदानी जगह पर पहुंचे, यहाँ पर टेंट लगाने के लिए कुछ चौंतरे जैसे बनाये हुए थे। ड्राईवर भैया ने बताया विदेशी सैलानी जब यहाँ आते हैं तो पहली रात यहाँ बिताकर आगे बड़ते हैं। यात्रा का प्रथम चरण यहीं समाप्त होता है।

On the way to Churdhaar Temple

यात्रा के दुसरे चरण में भी हमको जंगल से होते हुए चढ़ाई करनी थी। जंगल में देवदार जैसे दिखने वाले पेड़ थे। पेड़ो के बहुत से ठूंठ मिट्टी के कटाव की वजह से गिरे हुए थे। व्यापारिक दृष्टी से देखा जाये तो बहुत सी अच्छी लकड़ी यहाँ बर्बाद पड़ी थी। एक जगह पर इसी लकड़ी का सदुपयोग करके छोटी से वर्षाशालिका/आरामघर जैसा कुछ बनाया हुआ था। थोड़ी देर बारिश की बूंदाबांदी हो चुकी थी, लेकिन वर्षा जल्दी रुक जाने पर हम सुरक्षित एवं हर्षित महसूस कर रहे थे। रास्ते के लिए लाये स्नैक्स, बिस्किट वगेराह खा खा कर अब बोर हो चुके थे हालाँकि अभी और भी स्नैक्स बचे हुए थे। ड्राईवर भैया ने बताया यहाँ पर जड़ी लग जाती है और दम घुटने लगता है और इससे बचने के लिए पुदीना और प्याज दिया जाता है। असल में इस चरण में हम पहाड़ी पर काफी ऊँचाई पर पहुँच जाते हैं आक्सीजन का स्तर थोडा कम हो जाता है, और चढ़ाई के कारण शरीर में पानी की भी कमी हो जाती है, ऐसे में पुदीना अवं प्याज लाभदायक होता हैं। दूसरा चरण समाप्त होते हुए हमें बर्फ के दर्शन हो गए थे, अब हम पहाड़ी की चोटी पर थे। यहाँ एक वर्षा शालिका और एक कच्चा झोपड़ा था। ड्राईवर भैया ने बताया की बर्फ पिंघलने के उपरांत चरवाहे यहाँ आकर रहते हैं। वर्षा शालिका में बहुत से लोगो ने नाम लिखे थे, यहाँ आराम करते समय मैंने भी अपना नाम यहाँ दर्ज कर दिया। यहाँ रुकने पर थोड़ी ठंडक महसूस हुई, चलते वक़्त उत्पन गर्मी से ठण्ड का पता नहीं चल रहा था। यहाँ पर मंदिर की दूरी पौने 4 की०मी० लिखी हुई थी। यहाँ तक रास्ता हरा भरा था अब आगे के पहाड़ो में बहुत सारी बर्फ थी। 

 

 यहाँ से यात्रा का तीसरा चरण शुरू होता है, हम में से किसी को अंदाज़ा भी नहीं था की ये चरण कितना खतरनाक हो सकता है। सूरज ढल चुका था, अँधेरा हो चुका था, पहले पहाड़ी पार करते ही हमारे सामने बर्फ से भरा हुआ पहाड़ आ गया, इसके पहले तक पहाडियों पर कहीं कहीं बर्फ पड़ी दिखती थी, लेकिन यहाँ पहाड़ियों पर बहुत कम ही हिस्सा ऐसा था जहाँ बर्फ नहीं थी। ड्राईवर भैया के अनुसार उस पहाड़ी के अंत में जो टुकड़ा था उसके ठीक पीछे मंदिर होना चाहिए था। 50 से 65 डीग्री की ढलान वाली बर्फीली पहाड़िया, आज भी उस दृश्य को याद करके रौंगटे खड़े हो जाते हैं। चलते चलते पहाड़ी के आखिरी किनारे पर पहुंचे, लेकिन यहाँ से पहले जैसी ही बड़ी सी पहाड़ी ही दिखाई दे रही थी। अब ड्राईवर भैया ने कहा की शायद इस पहाड़ी के बाद मंदिर है। असल में ड्राईवर भैया बर्फ के वक्त यहाँ नहीं आये थे सभी जगह बर्फ होने से रास्ते का कोई निशाँ नहीं था, बस हम अंदाज़े से एक दिशा में बढ़ते जा रहे थे कुछ वक़्त बहुत अँधेरा रहा लेकिन फिर चाँद निकल आया जिससे हमें बहुत राहत मिली। हम में से बहुत सारे छोटे बच्चे थे अगर कोई भी हिम्मत हार जाता तो बहुत दिक्कत हो सकती थी, लेकिन कोई भी अभी तक घबराया नहीं था। अब तक मैं चाचीजी को मदद कर रहा था क्यूंकि उन्हें बर्फ में चलने में डर लग रहा था, और ये डर जायज भी था, किसी का भी एक गलत कदम हमें सैंकड़ो फुट गहराई में ले जा सकता था। हम सब बच्चे एक दुसरे का हाथ पकडे एक जंजीर बनाकर चल रहे थे बड़े लोगो ने ड्राईवर को देख कर हाथ में लाठियां उठा ली थी कुछ समय बाद में सबसे आगे हो गया और क़दमों के निशानों को अपने जूतों से खोद कर पैर रखने के लिए भरपूर जगह बनाते हुए आगे बढ रहा था। जहाँ बर्फ ज्यादा नर्म या फिसलनी होती वहां सबको आगाह कर देता था जूते पूरी तरह से गीले हो गए थे और पेंट भी घुटनों तक भीग चुकी थी।

कोई भी हिम्मत न हार दे इसिलए मेरा चलते रहना जरुरी था। सब डरे हुए तो थे ही इसलिए सब लगातार "ॐ नमः शिवाय" जप रहे थे। इस जगह पर 10 मी० रास्ता पार करने में मिनटों का समय लग रहा था एक-एक खड्डा बनाते हुए आगे बढता जा रहा था। बीच बीच में जब पैर जवाब देने लगते तो जूते के तस्में बाँधने के बहाने रुक जाया करता था, चलते वक़्त कुछ कुछ समय के बाद घंटियों की आवाज़ सुनाई देती थी इससे हमें मंदिर की दिशा का अंदाज़ा हो जाता था और साथ ही थोड़ी हिम्मत भी बढ जाती थी। मंदिर की घंटी की ध्वनि अब साफ़ सुनाई दे रही थी पहाड़ी के किनारे को पार करने पर मंदिर साफ़ दिखाई देने लगा, अब सभी ने राहत की सांस ली।

वहां पहुँचने पर पता चला की लोग हमें सुरक्षित देख कर बहुत आश्चर्यचकित थे। सुमिति व् स्वाति की हिम्मत देख कर चकित थे। वहां पर लोगों से पता चला की जहाँ से हम आये वो रास्ता बहुत ख़राब है। पिछले कुछ दिनों में वहां से फिसलने से 8 लोग अपनी जान गँवा बैठे थे। पुजारी जी ने बताया की आप लोगो पर भोले नाथ की कृपा थी जो आज हवा नहीं चल रही थी, वहां इतनी तेज़ हवा चलती है की किसी को भी मौत की वादियों में आसानी से धकेल देती हैं। रात के 11 बज गए! बर्फ से ढका हुआ लकड़ी का एक घर था जहाँ एक किनारे में आग जलाकर कमरे को गर्म किया हुआ था। हम सब आग के पास आकर बैठ गए और भगवान् का शुक्र अदा कर रहे थे। बर्फ में चलने से सबके पैर सुन्न हो गए थे। कुछ समय बाद मंदिर के ही एक महात्मा ने हमारे लिए चाय बनवाई। जिन सबका व्रत था वो सब रात में ही मंदिर में जा आये। हम सब बच्चे तो उस कमरे से बाहर निकलने का सोच भी नहीं सकते थे। वहां के लोग सो चुके थे लेकिन हमारे वहां पहुँचने पर उन्होंने हमारे लिए नमकीन चावल बनवाए, सभी भूखे थे और चावल भूख में बहुत अच्छे भी लगे। सभी के मन में ये ख्याल था की कल वापस कैसे जायेंगे। खैर रात को तो वहां उपलब्ध ढेर सारे कम्बल ओढ़ कर सो जाना ही बेहतर लगा।

Lord Shiva's Statue near to Main Temple

सुबह उठकर पंचस्नान किया और मंदिर में दर्शन किये। पिछले कल 6 लोगो की एक टोली भी आई हुई थी उन्होंने बताया की पहाडो के ऊपर से एक रास्ता है जहाँ बर्फ नहीं है, हम सबने उस रास्ते से ही जाने का निश्चय किया। मंदिर से ऊपर की और चढ़ने पर हम पर्वत की चोटी पर पहुँच गए, सूरज की किरणे यहाँ सीधी पड़ने की वजह से यहाँ बर्फ पिघल चुकी थी। रास्ते का तीसरा चरण जो हमने बर्फीली ढलानों से पार किया था अब पहाड़ के ऊपर से पार किया यहाँ का रास्ता बहुत आसान था। वापसी की यात्रा सुबह 8:30 बजे शुरू हुई थी और शाम 3 बजे हम नोहराधार वापस पहुँच गए थे। उतरते वक़्त चाचीजी और ताईजी की तबीयत ख़राब हो गयी थी। नोहराधार में भोजन करने के बाद हम राजगढ़ से होते हुए यशवंत नगर पहुंचे, यहाँ हमने चाय के लिए गाडी रुकवाई फिर कुछ आराम के बाद आगे के सफ़र के लिए चल पड़े। गाडी में सफ़र करते वक़्त मम्मी की तबीयत ख़राब हो गयी। खैर जैसे तैसे रात 9:30 बजे हम नाहन वापस पहुँच गए थे भगवान् की कृपा से सब सकुशल घर पहुंचे। यात्रा की यादें आजीवन हमारे मस्तिष्क में कैद रहेंगी।

[Note: This was written long back on papers after returning from the journey, was saved in my diary, i just typed it and put it on my blog, All photographs here are taken by my Brother Adarsh Pundir who got chance to visit the place again a year back.]

A short Monsoon Ride

I was almost planned to ride to Leh, Ladakh in Himalayas, but somehow plan didn't worked out, May June months passed quickly with lot of other stuff and i didn't find time to tour north india. Now in July 2012 monsoon showers has started already and raiding Himalayas in rains is full of danger, which i have avoided. just to feed the hunger of rider in me i planned to ride to Hyderabad. Hyderabad is around 600Km and well connected by national highway from Bangalore.  Very recent two of my friends, actually three of my friends have shifted to Hyderabad from Bangalore. i called up them and told that will visit you this weekend.

Hyderbad Highway

I completed my office work by noon and started journey at 3PM from Bangalore. As usual it took time to come out of Bangalore traffic. I stopped after Bangalore Airport and called up Bharath and Amit Sharma at Hyderabad to inform them. Sky was warning me that its about to rain and i was thinking that by the time rain drops will fall on the earth i will to escaped from this part of land. I kept riding with an intention that i wont stop before Ananthpur, which was around 200 Km, but after travelling about 160Km rain caught me. I parked my bike on roadside to cover my Bag with a rainproof cover and continued to ride. I was surprised that just 100mts after this place there were no signs of rain. Road was all dry i felt happy that i have really crossed the patch where it was supposed to rain, when i was at Bangalore. Next i stopped at Ananthpur where an Chariot shaped temple caught my attention. and i have to apply brakes to take picture of the monument. 

Temple at Ananthpur, Andhra Pradesh

By this time fuel has also reached to reserve part of tank and sensor was blinking indicator for that. Driving more 20 Kms i got fuel on a petrol pump. Very next to petrol pump there was a Punjabi Dhaba . Royal Enfield was parked on front of Dhaba. Registration plate of bullet was from Chandigarh. I was thinking may someone else is also riding but unfortunately the bullet was owned by owner of Dhaba. I had a nice tea here and started riding further.

I had just crossed Gooty after Ananthpur and it started raining heavily. It was time to turn on headlamp as sunlight was no more showing up road. I couldn't close the Helmet glass as rain was decreasing all transparency. No doubt rain was heavy but wind coming from left side of road was hitting so heavily that rain was visible almost horizontal, initially i was not speeding up more than 80Km/hr in this rain but gradually i found that bike is stable even if i increase speed to 100Km/hr. Checked twice that brakes were also responding normally. it was almost no effect of rain on the machine. Things about which i was worried about was less visibility due to rain and the rain droplets which were hitting hard on my face.

Completed 10000 Kilometers on by Bullet

Sometimes it was not raining to hard as it was in starting but it kept raining all the time. I was not knowing where exactly i have to go in hyderabad so just before hyderabad i stopped at a petrol pump took out my phone from the bag to check the email which Bharath has sent, email was having route map. because it was raining hard i was sure i may not be able to check maps so frequently so i called up Bharath and told me to sms some directions after entering Hyderabad. I read sms and kept in my mind before entering Hyderabad i will get shashabad flyover i have to travel 17Km on that and then go down find Andhra Bank and call up Bharath. Yes i have also stopped once more to capture 10,000Km on the Bike's odometer.  At a place A huge truck was trying to take U-turn from our side to other side of road and with long body it couldn't be done in 1 go. When i noticed this truck i was perpendicular to me. Heavy rain and darkness, but Headlamp was able to detect the correct position of truck with help of reflectors on the truck. and awesome brakes easily reduced the speed from 100Km/hour in seconds. A normal 2-wheeler could have banged on side wall of truck easily in the situation.

Loooooong Straight Road, I didn't crossed 125Km/hr mark

Finally i was at Shamshabad with help of someone i got the way to get onto flyover and started riding. This flyover was Express-way to Mumbai. normally two-wheeler are not allowed on many such express-ways but still i kept riding because i didn't see any sign board saying no entry for two wheelers, it was still raining heavily i increased speed to 110Km/hr along with SUV moving next to me, but soon i have slow down after i went into a pool of water standing on the flyover. Kept riding with a hope to find exit from fly over with a signboard showing exit to Nan*guda.. but i was not seeing any. I have crossed more than 20 Km on the express - way so definitely ih have missed the exit. Next exit was to 'financial dist' area. i came out of flyover and started searching for some people i was expecting a tollbooth which was missing. under flyover there was a crossing and 2 guys were standing  there waiting for rain to stop. I tried to get location of Bharath's place but the were not able to make me understand, I took out my phone to check directions but my wet hands were making it impossible to work in touchpad of phone. As phone was showing low battery i kept phone inside bag and started riding in direction told by these guys. very soon i found that i am in some IT park. that was a good thing I started asking from the security guards of the companies. and i got the way out. this road was fill be holes i was like sitting on camel, Water filled road was dangerous, at one place i went very deep inside water i could head bike's silencer struggling hard to pump out smoke. Thanks to 500cc engine i came out of pool safely. finally i found the Andhra Bank. took out my phone with 1% remaining battery. Bharath asked to come to some KS school and he told that he is coming towards me. Security guard of bank who woke up listening to the thump was not having any idea about that school but he pointed to a direction. I thought to get and idea about direction from bharath once again. but my phone was already dead. I continued in same direction where security guard pointed but was not able to locate and school. I decided to return back to Andhra bank ATM thinking that Bharath will surely reach there searching me, but i found Bharath on the way back to Andhra Bank. 

It was 1am when i reached his home. Had a quick showed i was all wet. My woodland shoes were weighing almost double with lot of water. Had a quick shower and dinner and then lots of talk which usually happens when we meet after a long time. Day started with Puja and Bharath's home and nice Andhra food. I have taken too much food that i have skipped lunch easily. by noon i moved to another part of hyderabad to meet another 2 friends the Sharma Family. Spent time with them .. and we had lots and lots of things to talk about. We roamed around in car in near by area but as it was raining cats and dogs, so missed he Bawarchi Biryani and char minar visit. Stayed at Sharma's place for saturday night. Sunday morning we visited Microsoft Campus, its was a huge campus. I enjoyed visiting campus as if i have visited a big  resort.

While Coming back to Bangalore

Coming back is always bad i was getting a feeling to continue further towards north and could have reached Himachal in next 2 or 3 days. but i was not free to move away from the commitments i had at office, started my journey at 3pm, i was at kurnool at 6pm fuel up to tank full here and continued further. i kept looking for the Dhaba where i have stopped while coming to Hyderabad but couldn't find it after Kurnool once more time clouds were again successful to make to wet, i had to ride some 3 Km in rain but then it was clear sky till i reach bangalore. I reached Bangalore Airport at 10PM, Another 40 minutes to reach to my house, i had dinner at a restaurant near to my house and after some phone calls i slept nicely. It was amazing experience, stable riding in rain has raised the proud feeling of owning a Royal Enfield.

Nahan, Himachal Pradesh to Bengaluru #trip3

Route Map ~2700 Kms

It was time to move back to Bengaluru to join office after year end holidays. I have to take my bike to Bangalore though i was confident to ride down 2700Km on my RE and enjoy real adventure but considering views from friends and family i made up my mind the riding ~2700Km alone is not a good idea. So plan was to send my bike by indian railways. i decided to ride bike up to New Delhi and from there send it via indian railways.

Foggy Road Before National Highway 1

On 2nd Jan 2012 i started from Nahan (Himachal Pradesh)at about 8 am , I was having a backpack with laptop and some clothes. I chose to ride up to Ambala and then take NH1 to reach Delhi. first break was at KalaAmb where i top-up fuel tank and met my in-laws. Moving further on NH72 i reached Naraingarh, from naraingarh i took state highway to reach Ambala as soon i crossed Shahajadpur, road visibility decreased with fog. Headlamp was on but was giving no happiness, travelled at 30kmpl upto Ambala and joined speedy zone. Increased speed to 80kmpl, I did not have breakfast at home so i stopped for a Alloo Prantha and tea at restaurant. After crossing panipat policeman stopped me, now this is interesting incident, i stopped bike removed my gloves, policeman asked me to show documents to other officer who was standing in the road side booth and was checking documents of other 2 wheeler, He was checking documents and was telling something about his washing machine, some comedy stuff .. others were smiling i also joined the queue with a smiling face. Along with the bike documents i had a letter from income tax department and officer took that paper, i remained quiet, he had a look on the letter and said to me," क्या लिख्या यो म्हारी समझ मा ना आवे, Licence दिखा दे " (i don't understand all this, you show your licence). i gave my driving licence which he returned after having a look and i continued my jounney. i reached Connaught Place delhi and called up my friend Prashant. Kept my bike at parking and went to new delhi railway station to enquire about parcel process. After riding from Nahan to Delhi i got a feeling of incompleteness as journey was not sufficient  for me i started thinking to ride further, but after talking to Prashant, Tejinder and Gaurav Gupta i again dropped the plan and started calling various transport facilities, some were charging too high some were asking for no objection certificate etc etc. Railway department was asking for a confirmed ticket after that only i am eligible for sending parcel.  finally at about 8 pm i decided to ride down to bangalore. Cancelled my flight ticket and had nice dinner with prashant.

Rajasthan Entry Pillars

Next day morning i was ready at 9am to leave gurgaun. Started my journey with top-up tank at gurgaun petrol pump and hit the NH8 towards jaipur, I was moving on 90kmph. After moving about 200Km i decided to take a break and all of sudden i got attracted by a roadside board with a restaurant name "Achanak" (Hindi word meaning "Suddenly"). Had nice alloo parantha along with a tea. People were staring my bike and asking common questions cost, milage, etc etc. Continued my journey after food and this time i increased speed i was riding above 100Kmph with a plan to finish today's ride before sunsets.

अचानक Restaurant

Stopped at petrol pump after some kilometers to feed the tank. i noticed that a shield of silencer was hanging out as one of the screw came out most probably due to vibrations. i had touched 120kmph during this time, at Night Prateek has told me to tighten all the screws before starting, but i forgot, few kilometers after petrolpump i found a shop where i could get a temporary screw to hold the shield, also tighten the other similar screws here. After this point i was mostly riding at about 100kmph and enjoying greenry of rajasthan. at around 6 pm i reached udaipur, with help of Prateek's sms and calls i finally managed to find "Pathako'n ki Pol" street and reached Prateek's house.

People Staring my Machine

Had bath and awesome dinner at Prateek's house and a night walk to famous Jagdish Temple and adjoining famous Lake. i was sleeping on the bed at about 11PM which is very early from the usual sleeping habit and as a result i got up early at about 3:30. I dont wanted to disturb Prateek's parents so i remain on the bed trying to sleep again, but i know myself i couldn't sleep after certain hours. finally i got my android and starting internet surfing. After about 1 hour Prateek's father got up and saw me awake, first he was worried i might got up due to cold but i ensured him that udaipur temperature is no cold for this pahadi. I managed to tell him that leaving early will be nice for me to reach pune on time.

Udaipur Palace on other side of Lake

Though he don't wanted me to send without eating something but finally he didn't stopped me. i got ready in some minutes and reached downstairs at parking place. I removed stand and tried to move, bike not heavy and when i looked the rear tyre it was flat. Oh i was really sad at this point. i was very eager to move as soon as possible but uncle told me that at this time no repair shop will be open, and we finally went back to house. He was also not able to sleep after this and sun was also out, finally uncle decided to take me for a morning walk along with search for nearby puncher repairing shops, We were on his scooter and we went to lake, He has showed be huge part of udaipur within short time which added udaipur to travel list. i will surely visit udaipur very soon. Parked scooter at a point and did 1 kilometer long walk, while returning i found a puncher mechanic near petrol pump. Back to house and then i said goodbye to Prateek's parents. We found and removed the nail from the tyre so that it doesn't make more holes in the tube . It was nice exercise to take bike to that petrol pump about 500 mts. After staring for some seconds he said its difficult to fix this tyre later he asked me put bike on center stand. Mechanic decided not to remove tyre from the bike's body instead he opened the tyre from the rim there itself. He got is watertub shifted near to bike and somehow with lot of tube rotation he fixed the puncher. By this time 3- 4 people were gathered watching bike and listening to me. People were not believing that i came from snowland himachal. only thing to prove them was HP number plate on my bike. Finally with a tea and all the best i left udaipur.

Big Parantha

Last day i have covered about 650Km and today target was to reach pune which was around 850Km, but i couldn't avoid taking breaks as they were must. so I tried to maintain speed above 100Kmph. Road was awesome i was riding towards Ahmedabad  on NH8 after crossing Ratanpur i took SH5 to reach Vadodara directly avoiding Ahmedabad. Just after starting on this state highway i found a Haryana Dhaba. I asked for 2 paranthas and a tea, the haryanavi guy replied back, "आपको तो एक ही बहुत होगा, शाम तक खाने की जरुरत नहीं पड़ेगी " (for you only 1 parantha is enough, you wont need anything till evening). And guy was true it was big parantha bigger than my Helmet, Parantha was like dipped in butter, along with Parantha he gave me plate full black daal. I managed to eat that complete parantha and continued my journey.

Ends Rajasthan Begins Gujrat

This state highway was two-lane road compared to NH which was 6 lane, i was thanking Narendra Modi for such a wonderful roads, after that Haryana Dhabha i left rajasthan and enjoyed Gujrat .. i visited Godhra before reaching Vadodara. After Vadodara i was back on NH8 and speeding up towards Mumbai. Awesome roads at a stretch i speed up and was able to touch 130 top speed. Odometer crossed 3000 mark at which i was suppose to get bike serviced. Morning parantha was enough not have anything during lunch but just to take a break i was looking for a restaurant at Bharuch. and i saw a gurudwara.  I stopped there visited gurudwara where sardarji asked to have prasada (food) at lunger hall. 

Gurudwara Chadar Sahib, Bharuch

I had no space to take any lunch but i went to lunger hall and had glass full of tea. Wherever i stopped and talked about my journey they were all showing a feeling that i am doing something stupid by riding this much distance on bike but here it was different, while i was tightening up my shoe laces, A guy came and said me "होर जी घुम्मण चल्ले"  i was so happy with greeting i had small chitchat with him and got to know that i was at Gurudwara Chadar Sahib and that guy was truck driver i might have crossed him sometime back and he did noticed Himachal number plate on bike. Got some more wishes from the guy and blessings from Guruji and continued journey. Around 1:40 PM i left gurudwara and i knew that pune is more 500km far. Riding and riding i reached Ghodbunder Junction from where i had to get out of mumbai highway and take state highway to reach pune sun was out of sky and pune was 170Km more at this place. Headlamp on and i have decided to not stop before pune, I unexpectedly i couldn't find bye pass and i spent time in traffic jams at thane, mumbra and panvel after crossing these towns i was on NH4 and enjoying the night ride. finally reached pune at about 10PM and it took another 30 minutes to find and reach Magarpatta City at pune. Veera Pavan came at gate of Magarpatta city. Many of his friends were already at his house to see me as he has informed to all that his friend from himachal is coming on bike. We had nice dinner prepared by Saleem, along with Ananth and all Pavan's friends. Along with dinner lot of talks and what not.  

Replaced temporary screw

I was supposed to get my bike serviced at pune and for that i decided to continue journey after 2 days. unfortunately RE at pune refused to service bike as they were already booked for a week. They suggested me to continue journey to bangalore and get bike serviced at bangalore. In these two days i finished some office tasks and little rest and met Kiran Sir and Pandit Akhilesh. 
Finally on saturday morning i left pune at about 8am.This was another 850 km slot that i have to cover awesome road we can actually see kilometers of straight road on this highways ..All straight roads were tempting me to try to reach another top speed point but somehow i controlled myself as bike didn't got serviced i didn't increased about 120Kmph and kept riding 300Km i stopped at petrol pump and again started riding.

last 500Kilometers left

Next stop was at mile stone showing bangalore 500Km took a photo and uploaded to facebook i didn't even waited to see upload complete notification. After this point i was like watching my odometer again and again. Now i wanted to cover it as soon as possible. My eyes were watching for the milestones showing be left kilometes, it was not even 60 -70 kilometers, and i saw a rajasthani dhaba Nice Army green color gypsy was parked in front of dhaba and i slowed down to get some food here . i had nice lunch here and continued ride. I was riding and only feeling was to end the journey as quickly but it was long distance. i  maintained my speed between 100 to 110 kmph. and kept riding Later at about 4:30 i again stopped at a punjabi dhaba of Shri Satnam Singh for a steel glass full of tea. Wife of satnam singh was shouting on the dhaba workers in punjabi. Another old babaji was cutting some vegetables on caned bed. I was feeling as in some punjab village. 

Welcome to Sajjanpur

Awesome had little chat with satnam singh and told him about my journey. He gave some more blessings along with instructions to ride safely. and i continued riding . Finally i was at bangalore at 7:30PM tweeting at some traffic signal at yashwantpur.. I was feeling Happy and satisfied with the journey. Someone has suggested me not to stop at bangalore and keep your ride continued upto Kanyakumari. but Bengaluru was enough for this time .. वैसे भी अब कन्याकुमारी कितना दूर है , किसी रविवार को हो आऊंगा  ;)